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<p>why would this matter? this isn’t high school.</p>
<p>I totally agree with lilkdub503. And most of the kids feel the same way.</p>
<p>Someone turned in a paper once that was just mine paraphrased, it was an online class and we had to post papers every week and post criticisms of each others work. I emailed the professor and pointed it out because I was really ****ed off, and because there weren’t time stamps and I didn’t want to be implicated if he noticed the papers were similar. </p>
<p>I had a professor make the entire class retake a harder exam once because he had caught someone cheating and found out a bunch of people knew about it and hadn’t reported it. I rarely saw people cheating when I was in school but on the occasion that I did and it was blatant I probably would say something privately to the professor.</p>
<p>As far as I’m concerned, it’s every man for himself in this world. Do what you have to do to get ahead. If cheating is someone else’s means to an end, I say go right ahead because it doesn’t affect me.</p>
<p>Why get someone else in trouble when you don’t have a reason to? Some people make it easier for themselves in life than others, I can’t really fault them for that. I don’t care to, honestly. </p>
<p>Plus, I was always taught not to snitch and to mind my own business. It’s like the laws of humanism. </p>
<p>And “social suicide” is possible well past high school. Reputation will always matter. That’s life.</p>
<p>I would absolutely report cheating to the professor (anonymously) if it occurred on a regular basis.</p>
<p>First, why should you care what a number of random faces in a class care about you? The only connection between you and them is that you have to be in that class with them for a certain amount of time each week.</p>
<p>Second, if I were to be in a college class (I specify ‘college’ because it is a much bigger deal than high school) with a friend of mine and he was blatantly cheating and getting great grades while I was studying hours everyday to do the same/slightly worse, we obviously share different philosophies regarding both morality and the purpose of an education, the latter being the reason I attend college in the first place.</p>
<p>Third, the student could be on financial aid or scholarships. This means that the college/government/outside organizations are lending or giving large amounts of money to someone who is going to waste it by not doing the work necessary to honestly succeed in college—money that could easily go to someone who would put in the work and appreciate the opportunity to become a better and well-rounded human being.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m too interested in the ethics aspect of philosophy.</p>
<p>DISCLAIMER: these statements only apply to students at my own school.</p>
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The cursing just makes this sound even more juvenile. Might as well cry about being a tattle-tale while you’re at it.</p>
<p>Generally, I’d just leave it be. However, if there was a curve and the cheating was hurting the grades of honest students and I was able to prove that it was occurring, I would likely say something.</p>
<p>What’s with CC and being tattle tales? This is 1st grade stuff…</p>
<p>Nah, it doesn’t do me any good.</p>
<p>I would tell the professor, anonymously of course. I told on someone who repeatedly cheated in an AP class last year. The teacher said she was glad to know and had actually noticed it too, but ended up doing nothing about it even though she said she would…so sometimes it’s just a bunch of crap.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t care. It probably happens a lot more than you see. Mind your own business.</p>
<p>Not if it didn’t affect me</p>
<p>Wow some of you guys are complete pushovers.</p>
<p>Yes, I would definitely report cheating, given the circumstances. If it’s something like a formula scribbled, or a rough essay outline, I wouldn’t care. That’s just a tool to get the desired result.</p>
<p>But if it’s something like a hat brim, mirrors, secret sheet of paper, or someone getting a test before hand, then I would definitely report them. People saying “Waaah, it doesn’t affect me” or “Baaah, they won’t get caught”, must be living in fairy fantasy world. YES, it does affect you. One perfect score on a tough exam could completely screw over a curve, leaving you with potentially with a changed sign in the class. An amassed group of cheaters could affect you even a whole letter grade, regardless if you know just as much as your peers. </p>
<p>As for getting caught, you underestimate professors LOVING of catching cheaters. Nothing tickles their professional fancy quite as much. My philosophy professor talks in pride as he managed to get two students expelled last quarter for cheating on his final.</p>
<p>EXPELLED, you say!?! Yes, EXPELLED! Believe it or not, things do happen to cheaters, the usual sentence being academic probation, which is a huge deal.</p>
<p>In short, yes, report cheating. It does affect you. They will get caught.</p>
<p>I don’t care if people cheat. Literally. A lot of people cheat. You think your curve isn’t based on cheaters? Lots and lots of people cheat. I don’t care. I’m not going to get other people expelled and ruin their lives because I want an A instead of a B+ and someone who would would make me very sad. I don’t care if you think they’re horrible people who don’t deserve to be in school, they’re still people, and I will never ruin someone’s life like that.</p>
<p>It isn’t worth my while to report them, but I could not care less if they are expelled. If you’re cheating you either don’t have the smarts or the work ethic to belong in college. Perhaps the University of Phoenix would be better suited for them.</p>
<p>I wouldnt, just like the 2nd person said, your not getting a reward for snitching on somebody for cheating, you gotta break me off something for me to tell the truth. Now for certain circumstances such as if the person cheating was somebody i didnt like then yeah im telling on them cause i want them in trouble lol or if they’re making better grades then me maybe just out of jealousy i would get them in trouble & tell. Or if i really want this professor to write a good letter of recommendation for me im a start snitching for he’ll know im a honest person & write that down for me</p>
<p>If the person is cheating well, you should never notice.</p>
<p>If the person is openly cheating and the professor does not catch them… then usually the professor really does not care.</p>
<p>Nah I’m not a snitch.</p>
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<li><p>Even if you did rat someone out for cheating, the professor probably wouldn’t do anything. Most cheaters usually do things like look off someone else’s paper, use water bottles or cheat sheets during tests, write on their hands, steal a test, etc., and if you tell a professor afterwards…well there isn’t really evidence after the test is over, so he can’t really do anything else.</p></li>
<li><p>I highly doubt 1 person out of 300 in the class could affect the curve by cheating. Even if its 20 out of 300, it probably wouldn’t make that big of a difference (at most, an A becomes an A-…or something like that). Hardly any people actually get a much higher grade by cheating. Most kids in the class have enough integrity not to cheat, and many of the kids that want to cheat are too afraid to actually go through with it. And out of those that do actually cheat, most of them actually don’t do much better (i.e. the answers they copied from a neighbor are wrong, or the stuff they write on their hands is not helpful for the test questions, etc.)</p></li>
<li><p>This is college, not middle school. I’m pretty sure most of us have a life and have better, more useful things to do than snitching.</p></li>
<li><p>Cheaters will get screwed over in the end anyways. Even if they cheat their way to an A in the class, they’ll have trouble later on. If they cheat their way into medical school, then they’ll end up struggling in medical school or as a doctor since they don’t actually know the material. If they cheat their way to an engineering degree, then they won’t have any idea what they’re doing when they have their first job, and they won’t last that long in the field. Those of you that say its dumb how you study hard but receive the same grades as someone who just cheats…your hard work isn’t pointless. It will help you in the future since you’ll actually know what you’re doing when you get your job, unlike someone that cheats.</p></li>
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<p>Snitches get stitches.
Na for real though, I’m probably too much of a wuss to do anything about it. Depending on who the person is doing it, I get mad or sometimes I just think it’s funny. Whatever.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t.
It impacts no one but them.</p>
<p>I would never snitch someone out for cheating, and I expect the same courtesy in return. If you were cheating and someone told on you, wouldnt you want to kill the guy?</p>